دانلود کتاب Astronomy with an online telescope

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Introduction and guidance\n Introduction and guidance\nWeek 1: The night sky\n Introduction\n 1 Finding your way around the sky using Stellarium software\n 2 The apparent motion of objects in the night sky\n 3 Mapping the night sky\n 4 This week’s quiz\n 5 Summary of Week 1\nWeek 2: Telescopes and visual observing\n Introduction\n 1 Observing with the naked eye\n 2 Observing with optical instruments\n 3 Observing from the Earth\n 4 The COAST facility\n 5 This week’s quiz\n 6 Summary of Week 2\nWeek 3: Stellar magnitudes\n Introduction\n 1 Brightness of the stars\n 2 Magnitude limits\n 3 Your limits\n 4 This week’s quiz\n 5 Summary of Week 3\nWeek 4: Imaging Messier objects with COAST\n Introduction\n 1 Messier objects\n 2 Requesting your first image\n 3 Collecting your first image\n 4 This week’s quiz\n 5 Summary of Week 4\nWeek 5: The Sun and the stars\n Introduction\n 1 Continue observing with COAST\n 2 The Sun as an ordinary star\n 3 What powers the Sun and stars?\n 4 Comparing the Sun with other stars\n 5 This week’s quiz\n 6 Summary of Week 5\nWeek 6: Classifying the stars\n Introduction\n 1 Refine and edit your COAST images\n 2 Classifying stars – the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram\n 3 The masses of stars\n 4 The lifecycles of stars\n 5 This week’s quiz\n 6 Summary of Week 6\nWeek 7: Variable stars\n Introduction\n 1 Stellar evolution after the main sequence\n 2 Variable stars\n 3 Collaboration in observing\n 4 Plan your own variable star observations using COAST\n 5 This week’s quiz\n 6 Summary of Week 7\nWeek 8: Building a light curve\n Introduction\n 1 Retrieving your images\n 2 Measuring the brightness of your variable star\n 3 Building the light curve\n 4 This week’s quiz\n 5 Summary of Week 8\n 6 Concluding thoughts\nReferences\nAcknowledgements